Funding

Australian Research Council (ARC) – LIEF (LE) & Linkage (LP) grants

• 2022. ‘Modularised cultural heritage archives – future-proofing PARADISEC.’ (Nicholas Thieberger et al) LE220100010
• 2014. ‘Re-integrating Central Australian community cultural collections.’ (Linda Barwick et al) LP140100806
• 2011. ‘Equipment and facilities upgrade for Asia Pacific and regional archive for digital sources in endangered cultures.’ (Linda Barwick) LE110100142
• 2005. ‘PARADISEC, the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures: Accessibility and Decentralisation’ (Marett, Foley, Simpson et al) LE0560711
• 2004. ‘Digital archiving equipment for PARADISEC research archive of Asia-Pacific region audio recordings.’ (Marett, Foley, Simpson et al) LE0453247
• 2003. ‘Quadriga system for research archive of Asia-Pacific region audio recordings’ (Marett, Foley, Simpson et al) LE0346848

ARC – Centres of Excellence

• 2014-2025. ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language. (Nicholas Evans et al) CE140100041

ARC – Future Fellowships

• 2014-2018. ‘”Small Stones can break big canoes: Securing records of the world’s indigenous languages.’ (Nicholas Thieberger) FT140100214

Australian Research Data Commons

• 2024-2028 Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA)
• 2022-2024. Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA).

ARC – QEII Fellowship

• 2009-2014. ‘Doing great things with small languages’. DP0984419

Department of Internal Affairs/Pacific Development & Conservation Trust (NZ)

• 2025. ‘Wantok Musik: Archiving the Rich Musical Culture of Melanesia’. (Jodie Kell, Amanda Harris, Steven Gagau

Leverhulme Trust/ Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (UK)

• 2019. ‘True Echoes: reconnecting cultures with recordings from the beginning of sound’. (Amanda Harris with The British Library and The Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies).

Memory of the World Committee for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCO)

• 2022. ‘Digitisation of Reel-to-Reel/Cassette Recordings of Songs, Dances and Stories of Yap State.’

Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP) Legacy Materials Grants

• 2018. ‘Digitisation of North Malaita recordings.’
• 2018. ‘Digitising tapes from Madang, PNG.’
• 2017. ‘Vanuatu Cultural Centre tape digitisation.’

Max Planck Institute

• 2016. ‘Developing the Vanuatu collection in PARADISEC’

ARC Research Network Seed Funding

• 2003-2004. ‘Digital Endangered Cultural Materials Network: Working group on digital research methodologies for endangered ethnographic material of the Asia-Pacific region.’ CIs including Barwick, Thieberger, Marett, Simpson, Foley. SR0354738. See our report.

ARC Special Research Initiative

• 2005-2006. ‘Sharing access and analytical tools for ethnographic digital media using high speed networks.’ (Barwick, Marett, Corn and 20 others). SR0566965.
• 2005-2006. ‘Distributed Access and Data Annotation for the Human Communication Sciences’ (Barwick and Simpson et al).

DEST-funded national initiatives

• 2004-2006. Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories. PARADISEC a testbed project within SORRT (Sustainable Objects Repositories for Research and Teaching)

Grangenet project grant

• 2005-2006. ‘Sustainability of distributed and federated data sets in the Humanities: PARADISEC’ (Linda Barwick)

Australian Academy of the Humanities

• 2003. ‘Researchers, Communities, Institutions and Sound Recordings’ (Workshop, Barwick and Evans)

French Australian Science and Technology Program

• 2005. ‘Standardised methods for archiving and describing ethnographic recordings’ CIs Barwick and Michailovsky (PARADISEC and CNRS, France)